Trump has previously promised to reinstate the 8,000 personnel who were discharged, with full backpay expected to be given. This move would follow his revoking of a mandate that federal workers must ...

With his confirmation at stake, Pete Hegseth is working the phones ahead of a Senate vote to shore up support to become the ...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary.

Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump’s economic agenda.

Scott Bessent on Monday secured confirmation to lead the Department of the Treasury, putting President Trump’s top economic ...

First-week orders could undermine progress on clean energy investments, pollute the air and add few benefits to the economy, ...

The new U.S. president could use the threat of tariffs to force countries into striking deals to accept deportees.

Donald Trump claimed an early victory for a coercive foreign policy based on tariffs and hard power on Sunday after ...

The US said it would not move forward with tariffs and some sanctions on Colombia after a spat over deportation flights. Colombia earlier said it would impose 25% tariffs on US goods.

Colombia backed down in a dispute over flights of deported migrants after the new US president threatened to impose steep tariffs.

Colombia avoided a trade war with the US by agreeing to accept deported migrants being returned on military planes after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs. Follow for live updates.

Colombia has taken a U-turn by accepting ‘unrestricted acceptance’ of deported migrants after earlier refusing two US ...